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John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was "still a dapper, youngish man with cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they...
...Assistant Attorney General of the U.S., youngish, trust-crunching Wendell Berge, was a greatly annoyed man last week. The reason: no one seemed to be in any hurry to plunk down $81 million for the 7,121 sleeping and parlor cars, the mountains of hand towels, bed sheets, the ten laundries, etc. that Pullman, Inc. had for sale. Until a buyer could be found, the grand finale to one of Berge's most successful antitrust suits could not be written...
...company's youngish President William Hedlund, 45, had just committed suicide at his home in Summit, N.J. Associates said he was a "war casualty"; Engineer Hedlund had worked himself (15 hours a day) into a sick, despairing man, while he boosted company production by $17 million in a year. A few hours later SEC, acting under powers never before used, suspended trading for ten days in the company's bonds, preferred stock, and its New York Stock Exchange listed common...
...week's delay. This was Blow No. 1. A little later, Blow No. 2 fell. The Russian representative was named. He was neither of the two men U.S. and British diplomats had expected, neither the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, nor Andrei Vishinsky. He was youngish (35) Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, who holds his first important post as Ambassador to the U.S., and who is only a little less inexperienced than Ed Stettinius...
Communist Fernand Grenier, youngish (42) ex-clerk, ex-Deputy, now the French Committee's Commissioner for Air, spoke up against political purging. Said he: men should be judged not by past actions but by present performances. Communist Grenier and his comrades had good reason to advocate this policy. Not long ago he said: "In the prewar and early war period many of us were Communists first, Frenchmen second. Now we are Frenchmen first, Communists second...